TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO V. M. MOLOTOV AND ALL MEMBERS OF THE POLITBUREAU OF THE R.C.P.(B.) C.C.

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ComradeMolotovand all members of the Politbureau

1.Pleaseacquaint all members of the Politbureau as
soon as possible with Teodorovich’s communication
concerning the Siberian peasant Yakovenko, which I have
sent
you.[1]

2.Thesame thing concerning today’s memo from Eiduk
on the American Government’s proposal to let us have
$20 million worth of grain on condition that we spend
$10 
million.[2]

December 22, 1921

[1]SeeDocument 554 of this volume.—Ed.

[2]Areference to a letter from A. V. Eiduk, the Soviet
Government’s representative with ARA, of December 21, 1921. Eiduk
considered the Hoover proposal disadvantageous both
economically and politically and recommended its rejection, because it
would result in an extension of the ARA apparatus, which was
engaged in hostile activity against Soviet Russia.

Havingdiscussed the question “of political measures in
connection with ARA”, the Politbureau on December 31, 1921,
authorised a commission, consisting of I. S. Unschlicht, A. V.
Eiduk and V. M. Mikhailov, “to work out measures of special
precaution in the event of excessive extension of ARA’s
apparatus and its recruitment of unreliable elements” (Central Party
Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U.
Central Committee). See also this volume, Document 558.